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four-oh-three forbidden @tom.secretworld.social · 3h

You can't drop a photo like that and not give a location!

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4h

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 5h

Televising the execution of Nidal Hasan is about more than voyeuristic violence Authoritarianism requires rituals of death that seek to transform secular oppression into religious orthodoxy while communicating the need to murderously purge “the other.” jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/descent-in...

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Descent Into Madness: The Ritualization of Death and Fascism

The public execution of Nidal Hasan is a potent milestone

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four-oh-three forbidden @tom.secretworld.social · 5h

Pretty sure "White House committee" isn't a thing. Well, I guess unless you're a CREEP.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h

Will this committee be anything like the Kennedy Center board?

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 6h

also this. ossoff's tone is "we all know this guy should get fucked, right? im just the leader saying it out loud. but we all understand this. we are united in this. i was just designated as the guy who gets to vocalize how you feel." bsky.app/profile/cora...

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four-oh-three forbidden @tom.secretworld.social · 6h

Yeah, after RnR Hotel closed I basically had no reason to go to H St.

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four-oh-three forbidden @tom.secretworld.social · 18h

A surprisingly large part of DS9.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20h

If you are a member of the republican party who isn’t a Nazi, yes you are. Yes. You are.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20h

It’s about time the Democrats started calling Republicans what they are: Nazis.

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four-oh-three forbidden @tom.secretworld.social · 20h

THIS is how you talk about Republicans. Not "my friend across the aisle" bullshit or "we need a strong Republican Party" (the fuck we do). This.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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kelsey ables @kelseyables.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New: The White House is conditioning $190 million for the Smithsonian on compliance with its executive order "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" through legally-binding footnotes in recent OMB apportionments. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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The White House Revives a Pressure Tactic Against the Smithsonian

The Trump administration is threatening $190 million in museum funding.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23h

Jesus Christ, I didn't think we'd actually get to the "public executions" stage of Trump's project to roll back the last 100 years of societal development.

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four-oh-three forbidden @tom.secretworld.social · 08/10/2026

Pardon me while I go yell every fucking word of this out on the street.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i wrote this up years ago but even in the 1964 landslide where goldwater got totally destroyed and lost the electoral college 486-52, he still got more than 38% of the vote. and partisan voting patterns werent as locked in ten as they are now.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i have a theory

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Adam @ahaberlach.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

...after 24 hours of the press and everyone sanewashing his bullshit. "No, it was taken out of context!" Trump: "Did I stutter, motherfucker? I'm fine with someone bombing my constituents."

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Once again, for the politicians, business leaders, and journalists still actively posting on X/Twitter: why? You're using a platform that's owned by someone who's trying to break up your country. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*hotdog guy*

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is really so wild to see folks whose whole experience of conflict is getting powerful institutions to resolve friction for them.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry

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four-oh-three forbidden @tom.secretworld.social · 06/10/2026

Just stay away from the Library of Congress this time (assuming it's still standing when you get there).

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four-oh-three forbidden @tom.secretworld.social · 06/10/2026

He behaves like an autocrat afraid the people are going to come and pull him out of their house. Kind of like he doesn't plan on leaving any other way...

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am so beyond fucking tired of the insane levels of deference and plausible deniability news media orgs--esp legacy ones like the NYT--afford Trump and the absolute intellectual rot and cravenness that it represents among the ownership & leadership of those orgs

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To be clear, these are strategic assets. They are nuclear-capable heavy bombers. This isn't some special forces A-team that got exposed and had to break contact. It isn't a planned redeployment. These are strategic U.S. military assets being run off the battlefield in Europe because of Trump.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/11/2025

Dennis Hastert Just Going To Assume He Welcome Back In GOP

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four-oh-three forbidden @tom.secretworld.social · 06/10/2026

Oh hey, awesome news! It'd have been nice if this scumbag died young, but you can't have everything.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, the Republican Party

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four-oh-three forbidden @tom.secretworld.social · 06/10/2026

Pretty sure Virginia only does mail, nothing digital.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

About 10, 15 years ago these people started the “was Hitler really so bad? Hitler only wanted what was best for the Germans, what’s wrong with that!?” talking point and I knew I would live to see it become the mainstream GOP position. The end of living memory of WWII is going to be ruinous.

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four-oh-three forbidden @tom.secretworld.social · 06/10/2026

My first time this year, and still waiting on my ballot which was sent on Sept. 18th.

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four-oh-three forbidden @tom.secretworld.social · 06/10/2026

Compare August 29th (4 options): web.archive.org/web/20260829... September 9th (3 options): web.archive.org/web/20260909...

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Wayback Machine

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Stephanie Rewis @stefsull.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In March, I signed up for my absentee ballot and it had four choices for why I needed it. I got my ballot in April. In June they cancelled me, so I had to fill the form out again this month. But the form has changed. They removed the option for being a citizen who's never lived in the US. Quietly!

Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Request
There are four choices for why it's necessary. The last one says:
I am a US citizen living outside the country. I have never lived in the United States.

Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Request
There are now only three choices for why it's necessary. The last one that said:
I am a US citizen living outside the country. I have never lived in the United States.

That one is now gone.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026

man I would like one fucking electorate - one! - to remember that fascism is bad for more than five minutes at a time

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 03/10/2026

one thing about the partisans on the court is that because they have never run for office, they have incredibly bad political instincts. he isn’t the first justice to time his retirement to benefit his political party, but they’re typically not this shameless about it

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